"Sir, it's great to see that you're okay" Whether it's hypocrisy or hypocrisy, when Second Lieutenant Piping saw Zhang Tie, the relieved look on the face of this slippery guy really warmed people's hearts, and he couldn't afford to be malicious to him, dealing with such a character, this is what Zhang Tie is best at in Tangde's grocery store, so Zhang Tie, who saw Second Lieutenant Piping, didn't be polite to him, but directly hooked Second Lieutenant Piping's shoulder and took Piping to the office.
It's been two weeks since the section chief did this, and it's the first time Zhang Tie has come to the section chief's office in the repair shop.
The office was furnished in the simple style of a soldier, with a desk, a sofa, a filing cabinet, a few steam engines and construction drawings of automobiles hanging on the walls, and nothing else.
However, although Zhang Tie has not been here these days, the office is still very clean.
Zhang Tie, who came to the office, sat on the sofa and looked at Second Lieutenant Piping.
"Okay, stop talking nonsense, I know you're well-informed, what happened last night, let's hear about it" Second Lieutenant Piping also found that this officer who had come down from the Iron Blood Battalion was different from others, he was more easy to deal with, and seemed to be approachable, but in fact he was not easy to fool.
As a subordinate, I actually like such a chief, what Second Lieutenant Piping is most afraid of is the kind of old-fashioned who doesn't understand anything, but wants to manage everything, if there is such a section chief in the Ninth Equipment Section, it will be everyone's nightmare.
What Zhang Tie didn't know was that in the two weeks that he didn't come here to take a picture, his indifferent attitude was recognized by the people here, who felt that he was a good chief and a good section chief.
Before saying what he heard, Second Lieutenant Piping also looked at the door of the office to confirm that there was no one outside, and after closing the door himself, he came to Zhang Tie's side.
"I have a friend who is in the air defense battalion, and he said that many people died last night, and an important warehouse of our logistics department was blown up by the airship of the Radiant Feather," Second Lieutenant Piping said in a low voice.
"Is it really explosives?"
asked Zhang Tie curiously.
"It's really explosives" Second Lieutenant Piping nodded affirmatively, "I heard that this is the Sun God's revenge on our side, because two days ago, our Shark Airship touched it at night and dropped a few heavy white phosphorus gel incendiary bombs in the battle fort where their headquarters was located, causing a lot of deaths over there, and the morale was also a big hit, and last night's action was the revenge of the Radiant Feather on us."
Zhang Tie only felt speechless for a while, and it was revenge Sometimes the contest between countries and between legions is actually no different from a fight between three or five-year-old children, that is, if you punch me, then I must kick you, and no one wants to suffer.
It's just that this kind of revenge is more terrifying and bloody than a child's fight, and it will make more people lose their lives in such revenge.
The people of the Iron Horn Legion were beheaded, so the people of the Iron Blood Battalion had to go up and cut off the other party's head, which was considered revenge, and the floating troops of the Legion dropped heavy white phosphorus gel incendiary bombs on the head of the battle fort where the headquarters was located, so they simply got an airship to come to the logistics base here and dropped the explosives directly.
Mess up the whole Brape.
Zhang Tie felt that perhaps the battle fort on the front line had long been prepared for the sneak attack of the Radiant Feather, so the Radiant Feather, who could not find a chance on the front line, extended the battle line to the rear of this side, and suddenly hit the vital point of the Iron Horn Legion.
Because of the limitation of transportation capacity, logistics support is indeed one of the key points of the Iron Horn Legion.
"Did we shoot down their airships?"
Zhang Tie felt that he was asking a bit idiot after asking this question, if the logistics base of the Iron Horn Legion, which is more than 100 kilometers away from the front line, can be allowed to fly back without anything after dropping a bomb by the other party's airship, then this war will not have to be fought.
"It's down, and that's when I feel a little troublesome."
"Why" "I heard that our air defense forces did shoot down their airship, and their airship crashed more than 20 kilometers south of Brape, but when our troops arrived there, except for a few dead people, the rest of the people on the other airship were gone, and this was the most troublesome.
Now no one knows where the rest of the people on the airship have gone.
Second Lieutenant Pepin sighed.
"We didn't find many bodies on the airship, which means that everyone else on the airship has run away, and that's the biggest headache, because no one knows where those guys are hiding, whether they escaped back or stayed, if the other party has intelligence officers who are familiar with and lurking in Brape and those who escaped to cooperate with each other, no one knows what those people will do next If those guys still have an explosive in their hands, Maybe they'll go straight to Brape's parliament building and be a human bomber."
The term "human bomb" is not new, for the people of the Black Iron Age, this term is the most tragic and helpless proof of human cannibalism before the cataclysm.
And after listening to these words, Zhang Tie knew why Brape's current atmosphere suddenly became tense, not only because of last night's explosion, but because it was already certain that there were dangerous elements on the other side lurking somewhere in Brape, even if he was wearing a military uniform, but Zhang Tie was still checked three times on the way to the logistics base where he was now, and finally came to the repair shop where the "Ninth Equipment Section of the Integrated Logistics Support Office" was located.
In order to catch those people, the soldiers of a division stationed in Brape all took to the streets today and began to set up checkpoints to check passers-by and check their documents, so that even if they could not be caught immediately, at least they could limit their space to a certain extent, and this was the only way to deal with them until they were finally caught or killed.
The phrase "Does the Iron Horn Army have explosives" made Zhang Tie think of a question that interested him.
"Yes.
However, the explosives of the legion belong to the most important imperial strategic materials, because they are too rare and precious, all the use and use of explosives must be approved and signed by the corps commander himself, and in the entire Norman Empire, all explosives are controlled by the royal family, and the only two alchemists in the empire who can make explosives are members of the imperial royal family elders after marrying the royal family."
Alchemist, this is a legend that Zhang Tie has only heard, and he has seen it in the book of the first exploration of the special professions of the human race in the Black Iron Age two days ago, whether it is in the legend or in reality, it is ten times rarer than the Pill Medicine Master, and it can be called the most mysterious, richest, and most terrifying top profession in the Black Iron Era.
Many cities in the Andaman Alliance may still be able to cobble together a few pill pharmacists like Abyan, but in the entire Andaman Alliance, there is not a single alchemist, these people have been dealing with all kinds of strange stones and crystals all their lives, as long as there is a stone in hand, these people are like omnipotent gods, stones and crystals are in their hands, and they have become treasures that can fight, cultivate, heal, and even improve the attributes of a bunch of metals and machines, as long as they pass through the hands of alchemists, Many ordinary crystals and stones can become worth 10,000 times, and the price exceeds that of gold, because these people really have the ability to turn stones into gold, so this profession is called alchemists.
The title alchemist is not so much a description of their profession as it is a naked envy of the profession.
An alchemist is the only person in this era who can make explosives, and a person who becomes an alchemist may lack everything in his life, but he will never be short of money.
Like the Norman Empire, as long as it is found that there is any alchemist's level that can already make explosives, and that alchemist is in the empire, the direct royal marriage, without a word of nonsense, with blood and family ties to tie that person to the chariot of the empire.
Alchemists have many nicknames: "Treasure Maker", "Walking Vault", "Omnipotent Stone Whisperer", "Hot Warrior in the Cold Weapon Age", and "Humanoid Nuclear Bomb", it seems that because of the strong pre-cataclysmic scientific and technological designation, in many countries in the Blackson Terran corridor, the ability to have an alchemist who can make explosives is regarded as a symbol of national strength and status.
The former Andaman Alliance once took out the position of chief worshipper of the alliance and promised a lot of benefits, trying to attract an alchemist to join, but unfortunately it failed to do so.
At this moment, almost at the same time that Zhang Tie came to this logistics base, in a wilderness more than 30 kilometers south of Brape, the airship that caused great commotion and losses to Brape last night has been scattered on the ground at this moment, the airship used for sneak attacks is painted black, the pod of the airship is more than 15 meters, and the hull of more than 50 meters long has been burned to the point that only a deformed rigid skeleton remains, and the rubberized fiber cloth used as the airship airbag is now except for a small amount of residue.
The others were burned into large swaths of pitch-black solidified carbide, scattered around the pods and airship skeletons, and in the shattered airship pods, some corpses in aqua blue military uniforms were lying in strange shapes.
A group of Norman soldiers in dark red uniforms had cordoned off the scene.
And in the blockade, a group of people in black trench coats were looking for something among the corpses of those Helios Dynasty soldiers, and several soldiers in Imperial officer uniforms accompanied them.
The surrounding soldiers under martial law also quietly looked at the group of people in black trench coats with strange eyes, looking at the blood-red gloves they wore on their hands.
These men with red gloves are the protagonists of all the darkest and darkest stories of the Empire, the other side of the Norman Empire's coldness and bloodshed, if the soldiers of the Empire are a pack of tigers, then these men with red gloves are a strange cross between the Empire's carrion wolves and venom-spitting vipers.
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These people are from the Imperial Order Review Committee, another powerful department in the Empire besides the military.
These people are the "State Secret Order Maintenance Police" under the Imperial Order Review Committee.
In Nottingburgh, everyone knew that the heads of these secret police, Viscount Norton and Marshal Lin Changjiang, did not like each other.
Except for their superiors, in the entire empire, there are few people who like them.
Because of last night's explosion, these people appeared in Brape like flies that smelled a bad smell, which was supposed to be the business of the Iron Horn Legion, but these people had to force their hands.
There are two reasons for these people to intervene: first, the bombing is a special national security incident, and all the investigations of the Empire's bombings except for the explosions on the battlefield are the responsibility of the Imperial Order Review Committee.
Second, according to the laws of the Empire, the Ironhorn Army's theater jurisdiction over the Karol theater of operations was only within 100 kilometers of the front line.
Brape had just gone beyond that, so while the victims of the bombing were on the side of the Iron Horns, the Imperial Order Review Board still had the authority to investigate.
Because the Imperial Order Review Committee in Nottingburgh had written to the Iron Horn Legion, hoping that the Iron Horn Legion would cooperate with these secret police to investigate the bombing, so these people came to Brape, so even if they were reluctant, the officers of the Iron Horn Legion who were sent to assist these people could only complete their task with a cold face, and when the other party asked about the situation last night, they informed the other party of the Iron Horn Legion's latest actions and discoveries.
Leading the way among the men in a black trench coat and red gloves was a major, a man in his thirties with silvery-white hair and wolf-like eyes with some kind of coldness.
"Major, after our troops arrived here, they surrounded the scene and never moved.
On the ground 500 meters away from where the airship fell, our soldiers found the tire tracks of the truck, which went south, and it is estimated that those who escaped were picked up, and we" The silver-haired man, who had been scrutinizing the body, had a warm smile on his face, and with a raised hand, he interrupted the officer who was reporting to him what had happened last night.
"Needless to say, I've already guessed the rest of the story, your people caught up with the empty truck somewhere more than ten kilometers away, and then you didn't see anyone, and then you traced the origin of the truck, and found that the truck was stolen in Brape a few days ago, and then, you judged that the people who escaped on the airship had fled south, right, Captain" A surprised look appeared on the captain's face, and the language on his face was a sentence How do you know "Captain, congratulations on your success in letting go of the dangerous elements of the Helios Dynasty, while your attention was attracted by the truck heading south, the remaining saboteurs of the Helios Dynasty on the airship had fled north, if you could have chased them in a different direction at that time, maybe there would have been nothing to do with us now, the spies of the Helios Dynasty hiding in Brape obviously know very well what kind of tricks can fool you" The silver-haired major said mercilessly, and the captain was so embarrassed that he couldn't speak.
The captain was speechless, and a major of the 21st Division, who belonged to the same regiment as the captain, could argue a few more words at this time.
"Our soldiers did their best last night, Major Franca, you just took a look here, how can you be sure that those who escaped from the airship will run north and not south last night" "Of course I'm sure," said Major Franka, from the Imperial Order Review Commissioner, with a blank face, then took off his gloves, stretched out an index finger, crouched down in front of several officers of the 21st Division, and plunged his index finger into the head of a corpse on the ground, the hard skull of the corpse, under the man's finger, like a piece of tofu.
Major Franca stirred the cranial cavity of the corpse with his index finger inserted into the corpse's head, and then pulled out the index finger, which was stained with some red and white juice and brains, and put it directly in his mouth, and tasted it carefully with his eyes closed as if he were tasting some delicacy.
Even though the officers of the 21st Division next to him were accustomed to seeing life and death, they couldn't help but turn a little pale and feel a little disgusted when they looked at this behavior of tasting the brains of dead people, especially the weird smile on Major Franca's face when he tasted the brains, which was even more chilling.
After a long time, Major Franka opened his eyes and smacked his lips retrospectively, "These people have the smell of bitter stone flowers in their brains, this is the effect of a secret medicine of the Sun God Dynasty on people, people who use this medicine, in a short period of time, the potential of the body will be stimulated, and the brain will be very clear, but life will not live long, this medicine is generally only used on those daredevils, people who take this medicine, in the army of the Sun God Dynasty, their only purpose is to die, not to escape, Because it would be a great sin for these people to run back.
Before coming, everyone on this airship was not ready to go back alive, so they must have run north instead of south, running south will hit your front line, and running north will cause the most damage, in Brape, there are hidden Sun God spies to meet them, and their airship crashed in the south to give you the illusion that they are going to escape."
"This is still your speculation," the major officer of the 21st Division argued, still with a pale face.
"These people on the airship all died when the airship crashed, and those who escaped can't have nothing on them, there must be injured or even seriously injured people inside, and they can't be treated when they escape, even if the vitality is strong, the injuries of those people will definitely worsen, and the deterioration of the injuries will make it difficult to move, and the inconvenience will drag down the team, and when it is found that the team is being dragged down, in the style of the Helios Dynasty, those who are seriously injured will be disposed of, as long as we look north now and avoid the main road search, There must be something to discover" Major Franca's wolf-like eyes looked at the officers of the twenty-first division in front of him, his eyes suddenly sharpened, but a slight disdainful smile appeared on his face, "Your strengths are on the battlefield, I am not here to be your enlightenment teacher for counter-espionage, I only hope that if what I said turns out to be correct, in the next time, before digging out those potential saboteurs, please do not interfere with my operation in Brape, my time is precious, Don't want to waste too much time in Brape for a few minor roles that don't matter. ” Several officers of the 21st Division looked at each other one by one with anger in their anger, and then nodded, Damn, if they hadn't been sent over from above, who would want to be with these guys wearing red gloves.
Twenty minutes later, in a ditch in the wilderness, five kilometers north of where the airship fell, the first body was found, buried in the ground, but because it had not been buried for a long time, and because it had been sold in a hurry at night, it was still found by Major Franka, even though the sun god had made some cover up for the people on the other side.
In another place, less than two kilometres away from the body, a second body was found :